Mike Krzyzewski Quotes

No, I do it all, but I do love to play solo.

No one can be free unless he is independent.

I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person." "That's true. That's the truest thing you ever said." "All right. I can respect that. Only you've got to play the game. Don't force an emotional situation and then blame me for it." "But I don't want any situation. I want to be left in peace.

I'm good at being by myself. I guess if you're a writer you get used to that.

Government does best when it helps people help themselves. Human dignity is found not in a handout but in being able to do for one's self.

Independence is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it.

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.

I didnt want to be encumbered by what anyone elses abilities were, their equipment or environment or their ability to get certain products.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.

Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe liberty because it throws them back on their own abilities and resources, thus confronting them with the possibility of insignificance.

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.

Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished of his proportion; and the stricter theunion, the smaller and the more pitiful he is. But leave him alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul, he will go up and down doing the works of a true member, and, to the astonishment of all, the work will be done with concert, though no man spoke.

I don't turn to anyone for advice. I do what I want.

The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.

The first freedom is to be in possession of yourself - to own yourself, to not be subject to the will of somebody else. In a capitalist society, that means having a certain economic wherewithal so that you can do what you wish to do without having to ask permission.

Women no longer need to be in a relationship. You can pay for your own life, you can have children on your own, basically do whatever you want on your own. So if you're going to create an addition to your life, it should be about love. That makes me happy.

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.

To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

I don't encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!

It would be very hard for me to do things somebody else's way.

Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.